EN i PRAHA AA RG a SN PIR [>= bushel, -- Lethbridge Herald, semmmsmnis of THE-WORLD AT LARGE + CANADA, THE EMPIRE the PRESS] ~ CANADA WE SHOULD VIEW WITH ALARM DEATHS ON THE HIGHWAYS The Ontario 'Department of High- ways is amazed that the people should become tremendously excited "about a minor earthquake that in. Jures nobody 'and causes almost no property damage while at the same time they contemplate with apparent indifference the continuing toll of deaths and injuries in highway acci- dents, In the first eight months of this year, the department points out, 6,- 886 accidents were reported from On- tario's streets and roads, with 201 deaths, injuries to 6,038 persons; and ~~ with 9,304 vehicles involved and sus- taining in the aggregate damage to the extent of $656,000, Earthquake hazards are almost ne- gligible in this part of the earth. But every week eight or nine persons, on the average, are killed on highways in Ontario, and two hundred injured, and we confess our impotence to do anything abou the situation. The pitiful/part of it is that almost all accidents are avoidable. They are caused by selfish recklessness, by a - flat disregard for the conventions of civilized people, by insane speed, by the failure of the human factor to measure up to the efficiency of the machine. -- Ottawa Journal, STREAM-LINED TRAINS . Above all, when considered in con: . Junction with the remarkable achieve- ment reported in the news columns of this issue, in covering the distance from Montreal to Quebec with a spe- cial boat train in three and one-half hours, it would be difficult to exag- geraté the importance of the an- nouncement just made by the Canad- fan Pacific Railway that five "light- weight streamlined locomotives," to be placed in service between this city and the- metropolis and capable of attaining a speed of 110 miles an hr. --the first of a new series--are un- der construction, : If the ordinary passenger schedule maintained hitherto on the Quebec- Montreal run can be cut nearly in two on the existing rails and with the present locomotive power, one may imagine what will be possible with the new locomotives when the rails two centres will be stimulated and multiplied correspondingly. -- The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. A LITTLE MORE COURTESY In a recent issue of a widely read magazine, attention is called to a by- 'product of the automobile industry which "ordinarily goes unmentioned-- the utter yuination of tempers and manners ich the automobile seems to havg#brought to milliofis of good citi 8. It is a point well worth con- sidering, It applies to nearly all of us and in the last few years it has pro- - duced a set of road manners which would seem to Justify the complaint that we are a nation of barbarians.-- Chatham News. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Great Falls, Montana, believes jt pays to advertise. Thi~ season merchants of that city will spend $6,500 in a street decorat- ing scheme to be ready oneymonth be- fore Christmas. It is the ost pre- tentious effoit made yet lighting and other decorating effects. This year several intersections will be! equipped with 'brilliantly-lighted Christmas trees, and the whole light-, ing schetne is to be extended, Lethbridge started a couple of - years ago-to-hang out the "welcome" sign. to Christmas shoppers. It may be that, by giving the undertaking a little thought we might make the city still 'more attractive during Decem- ber, Let's not hide our light under a WHERE BABIES UNWELCOME Babies are unwelcome in Gibral- tar, which is not a rock, or island, but part of the mainland of Spain, Being rimarily a fortress, Great Britain 8 no desire to encourage any- in- erease in the population, For over thirty years no new residents have been permitted to take up their ab- e, not even British subjects, -- Maclean's Magazine: i ; ELH ERR " YOUTH AND AGE. ~~ Youth has its virtues, and impa- tience with intolerable conditions is one of then. Energy, generosity, id- ealism are others, All these virtues ting away fro true that in Australia tha essential part' of a modern commun- CONGREGATION SURPRISED on Sunday were astounded when into the church, one year, months; -- Timmins Advance, AS TO RETIREMENT on second thought this would put heavy burden on the shoulders ges the older men earn. ing power, or existing on a "dole." Moose Jaw Times-Herald A TOWER OF STRENGTH man's rights, - that direction and we venture to sa Tewish Chronicle. THE EMPIRE CANADA'S MEMORIAL completed. The work has been froin tons, YOUNG DELINQUENTS until the age of sixteen. is reached ing criminals of youths who, with a little initial lenient treatment, would avoid 'a criminal career for the bal- ance. of their lives. Of course it is some children are vicious, But the vast majority are not, even though they may be wild, It says much for the better traits of human disposition that in spite of conditions many badly-treated children have grown up to be quite respectable elements of society Jamaica Gleaner, --Kingston MORE THAN A SCHOOL When will it be realised generally t a university is an will prove useful in Achievin it, roy g R s0- | ity, and not merely a glorified school lution But they will not do it alone. | where advanced 1) are taught? They must work wi h the experience | The great universities of the old And wisdom of the older men, - If | world owe their reatness to th "they can give edge and purpose and | contributions they re ade to the * ptrength to the uch the better, But the older men's older men's counsel so increase in the sum of human know- ledge and to the advancement of ei- i Sountel must give caution to the vig- | vilisation, Considered from this as- of youth, -- Vancouver Province, pect the teaching side of the univer. ¥ The congregation at a local church body of six prominent and popular gentlemen of the town walked into the church all in a body. One of them carrying a cane brought up the rear of the group of six, and it looked as if he were shepherding the others Each of the citizens in that group of six may be termed as genuine old- timers of the North, but it is safe to say that never before were they ever at church together, It is doubtful, in- Seouts, receives a salute as sh deed, if any two of them were ever of Gir in church together or singly in the The church roof stood up under the strain, but it will not be surprising, ( . if it leaks a little during the coming Do You Want At first glance it would seem rea- sonable to put the younger men to work and retire the older: men, but The better plan is to pursue those policies' that tend to provide work and wages for all who are able and who are more happy producing and earning than they would be on "pen- sions" commensurate with their earn- Adequate old age pensions for all who have done their bit, providéd by the Dominion, are wise, and national. ly economical, but only a limited pro. portion of men are old at 60 years. -- We Jews of Canada cannot however altogether disassociate His Excellen- cy from John Buchan, who saf in the British House of .Commons. To the world at large he has given a rich literary productiveness, but to the Jews he has also given another part of himself, the humanitarian, the al- truist, the fearless champion of As the chairman of the Pro-Pai- astine. Committee of the House of Commons, his engaging personality and his keen analytical mind did a great deal to build up Zionist senti- 'nt. He was a tower of strength in that he has left ar indelible mark up- on that organizution. -- Canadian The Canadian War Memorial, which has been erected at Vimy Ridge to designs by the Canadian sculptor, Mr Walter Allward, is now practically forward for sone ten years, has in- volved the use of some 70,000 cubic feet of stone, specially quarried in Yugoslavia, standc 138 feet high on a base 237 feet long and contains the names of 11,700 men of the Canadian forces who were reported as missing and also bears a tribute to the sold- ers of France who laid down their lives on Vimy Ridge... Their sacrifice is symbolized in a series of twenty figures grouped between and around two enormous pylons. Each figure al- one is twelve feet high and weighs 30 The new law to be introduced by the Government aims at keeping one a child until fourteen years of age, when one becomes "a young person." He or she remains. a young person and shall not be hanged for murder or very severely punished for other offences, After sixteen, presumably, ve all become old persons, or at any rate old enough to be hanged or imprisoned like anybody else. This new law is an improvement on the existing one, We are gradually get- m the habit of treating brutally the very young, from mak- Scout Week. The girls Mrs, Woodrow Wilson, w ife of the late President and Honorary Vice-President of the Girl e visits their "Little House" in Washington, D.C., on Home Making Day sery, demonstrated their ability as housekeepers for Mrs. Wilson by cooking, baking, making beds and washing dishes. : Hold your thoughts persistently. of expression. a older, hs temperate regular one. trips to the country. - thought drives away the shadows. tomistic disposition, 2 irregular eating habits, servers, atmosphere. before midnight. "Right to Die" - gerous one." ed into any hands," ment is to make it easy for people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.=Gladstone, A good deed is neyer lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he Wha plants kindness gather love, --Basil. y t is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.--H. W. Shaw. sity becomes a secondary essential, a medium for "distyibuting the new intellectual currency which the uni- versity should be continuously min- ing. The attempt of the new vice- chancellor of the University of Mel- bourne, Dr, R.' E.. Priestly, to spread this gospel jn Australia is worthy of 'the widest support and encourage- ment. The improvements which he has planned for his own university appear costly only because the com- munity has neglectéd in the past to maintain adequately" {ts source of intellectual 'vigour.. <= The 'Ausfral- asfan, vs - a BATE ---- To Keep Young? Simply refuse to grow old by count. of ing your years or anticipating old youth who would be compelled to pro- age. vide the "pensions" in lieu of the wa. | Don't allow yourself to think of your birthday, that you are a year Avold excesses of all kinds; they are injurious, The long life must be a Keep mental cobwebs, dust and brain ashes brushed off by frequent [in the papers. Never look on the dark side; take sunny views of every thing; a sunny |on the highway. Keep your mind young by fresh, Don't live to eat, but eat to live. |bYy its owner to 'forage for a living Many of our {lls are due to overeat. | along the sides of the highway. the Ing and eating wrong things, also to | Owner was. guilty of a grave breach : g Ne B of the law, He might even have fac- Don't be too ambitious; the cank-|ed a charge of manslaughter had not er of'over-valuating ambition has eat. | the occupants of the car heen ex- en up therhappiness of many a lite, | ceedingly fortunate. One road that Keep busy; idleness fs. a ' great|seems to be Infested with wandering friend of age, but an enemy of youth. | cattle {is that between Carleton Regular employment and mental oc-| Place and Perth, Seldom does a mo- cupation are marvellous youth pre.|torist pass over it without being Pure air, both indoors and out.|cows. Last week a motorist met a doors, {8 absolutely essential to health and long living. Never allow yourself Innisville and for a time it looked to remain in a poisoned or vitiated Don't let anything interfere with Y| your regular hours of work and rest, | cattle to become a menace on our but get plenty of sleep, especially] highways. Practicallv. every farmer Refuse to allow the mind to stiffen the muscles by the suggestion of age enforced by the provincial police in limitations. Age 1s a mental state, | the Interests of public safety." brought about.-by mental conviction. --_-- You are only as old as you feel Ottawa.--Ottawa physicians last week expressed disagreement with rr Tena 1 A ; ping agency disclose that no ftem in principles of the "right to die" doc- the "Sentinel-Reviéw during the past trine being sponsored in London by 'three moths was oftener -réproduced a society headed by Lord Moynihan. One widely known doctor said the doctrine was a "highly dangerous upon the subject of employment. Re. one and its application might lead to many 'unforseen abuses, In granting the privilege of taking life it would be hard to decide where to draw the Ine, and, as a human ele- ment would have to be contended with, the precedent would be a dan- Another physician asked: "Who is going to be the ultimate court of appeal? Often," he said, "people who are adjudged on the verge of death by the best authorities recover by some miracle, and a good many mistakes are likely to be made in an inexact science, My opinion is that it 'would be a very dangerous thing to put the amount of power suggest, The proper function of a govern- Cattle on Highways ANN observations: pure accident but if it was allowed forced to crawl through a group of full fledged bull on the highway near as though Mr, B. was going to dispute the right-of-way with the car, There is no reason for farmers allowing is driving a car himself and apprecl- ates the danger. This law should be The Pioneer Spirit Observes the Woodstock Sentinel. Review -- Contents of a couple of bulky envelopes from a press clip- or achieved as wide distribution as a paragraph from af editorial article publshed under the title, "Too Much Waiting About," it appeared in at least 40 newspapers in three provin. ces. It said: ai "Students of Canadian history have been impressed of late by the thought that many present difficulties would disappear it young people were pre- pared to face pioneer conditions and make a way for themselves as earlier generation did in this country. There is too great a tendency to -wait for government or dbrganizations to cre. ate favorable opportunities, and too much dependence upon services and conveniences and environment which exist only because of the toil which others performed many years ago." >~Ljie quotation is recalled here be. cause there was something In the nature of a sequel to it in the speech of Dr. Horace L. Brittain, of the Citizens' Research Institute, before a board of trade meeting here. He was not alluding to young people so much as adults ---- in fact to tax- payers, The latter are inclined, he sald, to take an adequate {interest in municipal affadrs only when times are hard and" domething hurts their pockets. DF. Brittain sees hard times still ahead, but he has some confi- dence that the spirit of the people will lead them to "take hold" and perhaps bring a long overdue balanc. of budgets. He sald: "My hope is that the people of Op. tarlo have sufficient of the spirit of the old pioneers that when they see how things are going they will really take hold, Great Britain has done it. She has balanced hér budget -- the only country in the world that has. Wo have not balanced any budgets in Canada "~ and only a few municipali. ties, and the best records have been made by rural municipalities, But 1 we will probably balance our budget, I have a great deal of hope that will Constitute a Menace ~ The Almonte Gazette in {its last Avold fear in all {ts varied forms.|i8sue made the following pertinent "Some time ago the judge raised the question of whether or not it was strictly legal to have cattle on the road even though they were accom. panied by a driver. Either the judge or the law- was in error because ft is palpably absurd to state that a far. mer can't drive his cattle on a country road. = What we suspect {is that; the learned judge was misquoted What he probably sald is that it was against the "law to allow cattle to stray unattended Quite recently a Perth doctor driving at night wreck. ais automobile wheén he struck a vigorous thinking and your heart [horse loose on the road. If the horse sound by cultivating 'a cheerful, op-|broke out of a pasture then ft was ' think, belng a chip off the old block, | bl Can We Wait? Chronicle-Telegraph) Much as we advocated world peace Longe ago we forsaw What is developing in Europe to- * day. : : Britain must arm and arm heavily, Pacifist Prime Minister Baldwin 1s right, : ak Britain is in danger, ~, States : "Makes the position more complex The whole trouble is the jealousy of Europe. : Sovietism, Facism and Nazism Are now trained military camps. The people are bottled up Boiling with envy which breeds hatred, « Of Britain, Canada and the Unit. » "ed States. 2 No country will have them, So they are 'training, training, 7 training, And becoming more restless and aggressive. \ Anything may happen, The one safe course fm Siesta Period In : Italy's siesta hour, Premier Mussolini told his people recently they must do their sleeping at night to save of- on a schedule from 9 am, to 4.30 ~The latter regulation may prove Black Shirt patriots have yet faced. to at. least two hours at the-heat of Suite Prepared for Son of Extremely Simplé Fitted for a very modern young 'prince is the suite which has been prepared for the Duchess. of Kent's baby son, writes Zoe Farmar in the London Daily Express, nursery and bathroom--are on the third floor immediately above the Duchess' own bedroom, = overlooking It was the Duke of Kent who de- cided on the planning, the colors, and the general lay-out of the suite, al- new Prince. demanded of every item of furnish- The floors, the tables and chairs, the curtains and chair covers, can That point and the soothing light- throughout the world. ground fit-for a prince, but equally fit for any well-loved baby. on, warm and washable, a slightly shiny white--white with Everything is white, in fact, ex. cept the patterned glossy chintz which covers the chairs and forms | Somebody tossed a gourd -- a kind ; \ «lof melon -- Into a garden at Waker- this fabric ising, Essex, It burst, and the seeds ylelded 3 éwt. of fruit, the largest weighing 8/4cwt. There were seven. teen gourds from the seeds. One.root| camo up fn A nels the curtains. £ to happen. Anyway, if {t-does Jot. habs . | pon, we deserve all we are go 43 | got." Sing i Ladi 4 only other furniture in the '| room 15 a long chest of drawers, also in white washable paint, outlined with blue, which houses the early wardrobe of the young Prince; armchair; and the royal cot. Rooms Inter-Communicate One door leads in directly from the landing, another into the lobby, so that the suite is really self-contained and the baby need not be carried out on to the landing in order to go from the day to the night nur- is no longer the priest or magician he long ago was thought to be, but a remnant of the old magic is re. tained in what is described as the = "bedside manner", Sir : Kingsley ) prefers to phrase it differently, He 7 thinks of it as the human"sympathy of the doctor, and believes it was probably more important than nine- tenths of the drugs in the "materia medica," men of all kinds, the fuller he com- prehends the conditions of life in- timately related to the health of a patient. The doctor, in short, "may learn about (and. should learn dbout) bones, morphology, pathol. ogical processes, and so on, but let him always remember that he: was treating a human being and not a universal robot." In front of the electric day nursery is a deeply hand-tufted rightly colored with houses and little men. Nice and soft to crawl about on and with plenty i ¢ ETH to interest the young mind. (Hon. Frank Carrell: in. Quebec Then there is the centre table, white with its blue lines, square but : with the corners snubbed off. Aroun Through the League of Nations, it four plain' chairs with -no dust rests. 3 And a good and roomy "toy ecup- board over against the wall. 'J. An armchair for nurse »| of robm wool probably means his plea for the re- turn. of the bedside manner to be qualified, and does not for one mo- ment advocate the reinstatement of the medical gentleman whose sole equipment often was only a good bedside manner, whose soothing in- fluence unaccompanied by curative knowledge was too frequently . fatally negative. or No Direct Lighting : oa : . There is no overhead lighting, only The neutrality of the. United | | 0 "standard fittings with white bases and blue and white shades. The bathroom. fitments are white, with chromium-plated taps. The whole place is kept at an.even temperature though: there are the screened elect- ric fires in both the nurseries for ex- tra cold days. 3 And that is about all it takes to ry--except, of knowledge niay be bringing back the bedside maner from under the cloud which has tended to hide it. Whas its place. So, too, the layman titioner, - He is not only peculiarly . fitted by his intimacy with family His conditions of health and illness; but, as the British Minister of Health said at Guy's Hospital, "in the fight | for better national health the gen- | gel practitioner was 'in the front ne." Es 3 \ = make the perfect nurse course, the baby. Warrior's Day He was stepping out right smartly As I glimpsed film years ago, -For the Brigadier was fussy Over putting on a show; And the boys came up in column Shifting smoothly - into line, ; Italy Is Cancelled with the rifies sloped correctly A ° ©" |" And the buttons all ashine. Rome, -- Sanctions have stolen They were spear-hea THERE'S ROOM In London Sir 'Percy Vincent, once a poor draper's assistant, drove ina golden coach in triumphal procession from the historic Guild Hall to the Royal Law. Courts. in the 'Strand, there to take oath as the Lord Mayor of London observes the Ottawa" Journal. -- It is something worth noting. - Many of us have been accustomed to think of this continent 'as the home of opportunity; "to:speak of and pity Europe as the home of caste and class. Which is wrong. This contin. - ent, still, in a sense, a pipneer, con. tinent, still, in a sense, a. pioneer ! continent. necessarily. has more of opportunity 'than older, lands, a great- | er levelling of classes. But it fs a 8 | "| denial of all history, of all facts, to = bg) assume. that Europe denies achieve. ol Ba ment to brains and. 'character, -that : ; success there depends. wholly upon 5 AR the accident of birth, . il d troops and E You could teil'it from their stride, work a full day in the daytime and! While the Brass Hats took the credit Almost bursting in thelr pride. fice light and heat, They must work The band was on the side lines It was playing Kerry Gow-- _ p.m, with only a half-hour for lunch.| But that was many years geo, - A long far road from now, the most bitter disciplinary lesson I saw him only &esterday On a sun.drenched city street, For centuries they have been used Where scorcling pavement sweltered : And blistering shuflin the day for eating and dozing. 1 He wouldn't let them count him out Although he might be down; TD RT RAT | He wasn't wearing Khaki MODERN: NURSERY 'Just a suit of rusty brown, WOE TEOMA ENR eh _'At sight of him and many more, FOR INFANT PRINCE The Grandstand rose to cheer; ! y For here as something novel To be segn: but once a year, Said one sweet lip.sticked maiden, "What are those medals for," Duke and Duchess of Kent ["1 guess sata scarlet finger-tips, AT "There musta been a war." ~---Canadian School Journal. __ A Good. Creed The Kitchener Record published a i sportsmen's creed, as Issued by an The three room ay and . night asgoclation which alms to preserve the wild life and the denizens of the woods. Never in sport endanger human was, perhaps, when her ruling class. es were recruited from - the "aristo. cracy -- but not now. Her great War Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, "ff was the son 'of a penniless clergy- eT man, began life as a briefless solici. 3 tor. One of his successors, Ramsay MacDonald, was the son-of a Scottish cottage. The great Lord Reading, ; E Rufus Isaacs, was a poor boy, began ' a 74 life at sea. And Lord Birkenhead rose : to the Lord Ohancellorship from poverty and obscurity. : The..list could be extended inde. Jinitely. It could take in the leaders of the Labor .party, who, coming from pit and factory, rose to gov. 5 ern England; take fn countless fied others who, beginning life with noth- ing but their own coursje and: in- dustry, achieved fame, in business *and industry. : And not only in England. It is not Se one of the members of the old Roman 3 aristocracy, but a Mussolini, some- 1 = time penniless Socialist, who governs Italy. It is not one of the old Prus. sian caste but a Hitler, up from the beer gardens. of Munich, who gov erns Germany, It is not one of the old Russian caste, but Stalin, of the ~ Georglan - peasantry, who governs ; 'Russia. And it {8 no member of the Irish landed classes, but a De Valera, child of a New York ténement, who governs the Irish Free State. | So it is in all the world, or in most of it. Human ambition, character, brains, industry, what may be called the divine right of intellect -- these the tree-tops of Belgrave-square,' ite 2, Never kill wantonly, or-need- lessly, or brutally. = : 3. Obey the laws, work for better most a private flat, which was pre- laws, and uphold the enforcing au. pared long before the arrival of the thorities, : : : 4. Respect the rights of farmers And the first quality which was| gn property owners, . ays leave ing and decoration was washability. 'game Always COVEr, Never be a fish-hog, : 7. Discourage the killing of game all be kept spotlessly clean--easily. | tor commercial pur White and Blue "| to purchase trophies. ; ; Study and record the natural his. ness of the rooms make this nursery tory of game species in one that will be copied by mothers | op motence, 1 8 Study and. recérd the. natural It contains no extravagent detail, {history of game species-in the interest no unnecessary luxury . . a. back-{of solence, 9. Never throw down a lighted Dy. match or cigarette. ~The floors of all three rooms are|camp fire. close covered in a white Pubber com-| 10, position--13% in. thick, soft to tread and be a gentleman. seed birds and 3e8 by refusing the Interest Put out your Love nature and {ts The walls, too, are all painted in Whipped blood js' the dief of Lon. ; "+hal don Zoo's three vampire bats. ihe Eiars taken wt a by iy night. they consume at least alf a Bugh on ng vine - | pint of horse's blood which has been nipeg Free P Oo aiutsstcuea yi might expect to find it in" oe b : y th to Sir Kingsley says t gt the 'doctor - The more the doctor goes among "The British Minister of Health The requirements of 'niore exact ay think, has the general prac- -- i AT THE TOP Take the case of England. Time